Recruitment of age-matched healthy controls (HCs) was not feasible during the study period due to the risk of exposing healthy children to COVID-19 by coming to the hospital for a research blood draw. HCs for this study, therefore, consisted of healthy adults working on-site during the stud...
After the additional exhaustion test, spleen relative weight decreased, and there were not changes in the percentages of Tαβ, B and NK cells, but the proportion of the Th cell subset decreased. This may be due to Th cell mobilization to the blood [9]. These changes were accompanied by...